More than failed tsunami warning systems, earthquake experts condemn a lack of public understanding of the risk as a fatal contributor to the more than 1,400 deaths in a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Palu Bay in Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Sept. 29.
We are having some success in nudging the software developers to serve our needs as well as those of their perhaps more numerous customers in other fields.
Tutor Perini is struggling to shake off long-running concerns over the hundreds of millions in unbilled costs that have been on the contractor’s balance sheet for years.
Managers of a 90%-complete, 646-bed hospital in Liverpool will take charge of the project after unravelling a public-private partnership with the contractor Carillion Plc, which collapsed ignominiously in January.
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority, after closing its recently dedicated Salesforce Transit Center, is investigating the cause of cracked built-up plate girders supporting the roof garden.